It’s been fifty years since the guns fell silent in Vietnam. How should we think about the war’s origins, escalation, and ultimate resolution? And what of the struggle’s aftereffects, and its continued resonance in U.S. politics and society today? Join us as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall takes a fresh look at the war and its legacy.

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In partnership with the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation is proud to bring Fredrik Logevall to Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.

About Fred Logevall

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of History and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including most recently JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020), which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House, 2012), won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Parkman Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the American Library in Paris Book Award.

Logevall’s essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Politico, Daily Beast, the London Review of Books, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.